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This division began to be gradually reformed after 2014, but it wasn’t until 2025 that the changes took effect in most provinces.
This gets the timeline wrong. Official Chinese government sources say most provincial-level regions had already ended the arts/science stream split by 2024, not 2025.
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Official Chinese government sources contradict the claim that the reform only took effect in most provinces in 2025.
- A July 14, 2024 article published on the Chinese government's English-language portal states: "At present, in most provincial-level regions, students are no longer categorized into arts or science streams." That means the change had already taken effect in most regions by mid-2024.
- A September 2022 Ministry of Education press release gives the rollout schedule: the new gaokao had already been administered in three groups of provincial-level regions, a fourth group would implement it in 2024, and only the fifth and final group of eight provincial-level regions would do so in 2025.
So 2025 was not the point at which the change first took effect in most provinces; by 2024, it already had.
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- China's diversified educational system empowering dreams of millions
At present, in most provincial-level regions, students are no longer categorized into arts or science streams.
- China's examination system reform shows progress - Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
The fourth group (Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Gansu) and the fifth group (Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Ningxia) will take the new "gaokao" in 2024 and 2025, respectively.